The Seeking Dao Immortal Sect and the Profound Heaven Dao Sect both stood in the Southern Heaven Continent, one in the south and one in the north, facing each other as neighbors.
Though both were great gates of the Immortal Path, the Profound Heaven Dao Sect had a friendlier relationship with the Grand Heaven Dao Sect in the Northern Heaven Continent. It was not that they were hostile toward the Seeking Dao Immortal Sect; as Immortal Path sects, they were entangled in too many affairs and each had its own calculations. Staying too close instead gave rise to a few unpleasant frictions.
"This Nine Heavens seems to be a Great Realm shaped like an inverted gourd. Its belly is broad enough to hold three continents. If cultivators in the Southern Heaven Continent wish to exchange insights with fellow practitioners, they usually head north. To the south, like the Profound Heaven Domain, lies a vast expanse of ocean..."
Lu Qing took all of this in.
The Profound Heaven Dao Sect's location was not perfect, but neither was it like the Northern Heaven Continent, surrounded on three sides by immortal gates, Dao sects, and Buddhist lands. To its far north lay the Four Lands, also known as the Barren Land and the Exile Realm, where Demonic Cultivators, Evil Cultivators, and Leftist Path cultivators mostly gathered.
"The Western Heaven Continent has the Spirit Heaven Buddhist Land and the Glazed Buddhist Sect. Three sects stand shoulder to shoulder in the Northern Heaven Continent—the Grand Heaven Dao Sect, Scarlet Heaven Dao Sect, and Dharma-Free Immortal Gate, all bordering one another. Of them, the Grand Heaven and Scarlet Heaven Dao Sects walk the broad and righteous path, while the Dharma-Free Immortal Gate acts in a far more eerie and solitary manner. In the Eastern Heaven Continent,